TWO
WAR DRAGON
Detective Anna McCaughley stared at the body.
It had been floating in the river for some time now, before coming to rest against the embankment. The skin's deterioration had left it gray and mottled. Dumped upstream, it had floated down the river to arrive at its present location. Along the way, rotting leaves, twigs, dead insects, and the detritus of the waterway attached itself to the corpse like a morbid flotilla. The body had reached its latest resting place at the edge of an embankment, found hours later by a family of three.
It had ruined an otherwise pleasant morning.
Anna slipped on the latex gloves as she knelt by the body where it became snagged by reeds at the water's edge. Patrolmen kept the bystanders at bay while remaining at a distance to avoid compromisi
